A Watertown woman won a South Dakota State University Extension Community Vitality business plan contest with her compelling plan for a cancer support group.
The Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce sponsored the course. The business plan contest gives participants the opportunity to refine and develop their current or potential business. Carrie Holden won $500 in chamber bucks as part of the community vitality Small Business Basics course, where participants competed to showcase their entrepreneurial ideas.
Holden’s vision is to create an online cancer support group after she found there were none in eastern South Dakota. Holden has battled cancer twice, and said the second time—bone cancer—was especially painful.
PHOTO: Tim Sheehan, Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce president; Carrie Holden, Small Business Basics contest winner; and Kara Harders, SDSU Extension Community Vitality Field Specialist. (SDSU Extension photo)
